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August 15 2006 By virtueonline OUT OF AFRICA: Explosive Church Growth, More TEC Parishes flee...

If nothing can stop the revisionist juggernaut in the Western Church bent on self immolation, so nothing can stop the spread of the gospel throughout the continent of Africa, torn as it is by tribal wars, poverty, illiteracy, HIV/AIDS and so much more.

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July 31 2006 By virtueonline Title IV Review Committee Chosen…SC selects nominees for bishop…Middle East…more

The Rt. Rev. Dorsey Henderson, Bishop of Upper South Carolina, is the senior bishop on the Committee and the rest of the episcopal members of the committee are: the Rt. Rev. David C. Jones, Bishop Suffragan of Virginia; the Rt. Rev. C. Wallis Ohl, Jr., Bishop of Northwest Texas; the Rt. Rev. Bavi Edna "Nedi" Rivera, Bishop Suffragan of Olympia; and the Rt. Rev. James E. Waggoner, Jr., Bishop of Spokane. Outgoing HOD president, George L.

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July 26 2006 By virtueonline FOUR bishops bring charges against orthodox bishop...Benitez blasts Righter...

The message was pleading, straightforward and from the heart: "Our beloved +John-David Schofield is under attack by +Mathes, +Bruno, +Swing & +Lamb for "abandonment" of the ECUSA. Can you please rally support for him, asking conservative priests to write to overseas bishop friends and beg them to put pressure on ++Rowan Williams to declare himself as the Alternative Primate for San Joaquin?"

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July 19 2006 By virtueonline SCHISM continues...Via Media fights back...Texas orthodox challenge bishop..more

Theological liberalism slowly sucks out the oxygen of classical belief that produces passionate faith, said Peter Corney director of the Institute of Christian Leadership in Melbourne, Australia recently. He made this observation even as attendance in the Anglican Church in Melbourne had dropped from 50,000 in 1981 to 21,000 in 2006. He said the church needed a vital orthodoxy.

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July 11 2006 By virtueonline ECUSA heads for divorce...Seven dioceses flee...ECUSA has "cancer"...more

Those seeking a divorce fall into three categories. Six of the dioceses want alternative primatial oversight; one diocese wants direct primatial oversight from the Archbishop of Canterbury himself, and an eighth diocese has expressed solidarity with the other seven but hasn't made a full commitment to leaving owing to the fact that they are in the midst of changing bishops and it would be inappropriate for an outgoing bishop to make a commitment for an incoming bishop.

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July 04 2006 By virtueonline CONVENTION FALLOUT BEGINS..Dioceses in uproar..Liberals ready to split Communion

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
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July 3, 2006

According to two orthodox Episcopal bishops it takes only four dioceses legally and ecclesiastically to form a new province. (In the Roman Catholic Church it is three). Could such a new province occur in North America, "it very well could," said one of the bishops?

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June 27 2006 By virtueonline Unraveling begins. Diocesan Bishops speak out about GC2006 actions...more

One British observer noted the following. "It is interesting to see how the results of GC2006 have gone down on Thinking Anglicans. One might have thought that the revisionists would be celebrating, crowing about their great victories. But there is a very muted reaction instead - they are trying hard to maintain their delusions - all the while knowing that it was a Pyrrhic victory: they won the battle but lost the war.

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June 08 2006 By virtueonline BENNISON BROTHERS hit bottom...Sauls and the Stripper...Anglo-Catholics...more

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
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June 8, 2006

Once again the two Bennison brothers, Charles and John took center stage this past week, each on opposite coasts, and in doing so demonstrated that it is possible to reach new levels of cupidity, venality, shamelessness, dysfunction and just plain sin.

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June 02 2006 By virtueonline TENSIONS rise as GC2006 draws closer...Bennison Brothers on hot seats...more

But here's the real kicker clause; Pennsylvania Bishop Charles E. Bennison knew what was going on and failed to report it to the police, especially as the girl his brother seduced was under 18. Charles Bennison was pastor at St. Mark's in Clayton County at the time when the scandal first erupted. In 1979, Chuck Bennison allegedly sent a letter to John's first wife, urging her to keep quiet: "a public scandal here...could cost me my job," he wrote.

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